TW: I heard Nova survivor May Hayat speak at @novaexhibition and the savagery she saw NEEDS to be told. She hid with Avi Dadon, stranger who rescued her from the site. Terrorists found them and two held Avi’s head back while one stabbed him in the neck. We CANNOT forget.
Jew-hatred rages at a pitch I wouldn’t have dreamed possible. From left to right, pimply blue-haired “queer” to rich media superstar: all unite in a familiar refrain, that humanity’s greatest threat is The Jews. I don’t know how this most recent insanity will end. But I can attest that there’s a point to fighting it, and minds can even be changed.
For most of my adult life, I was one of those brainwashed fools. Aged 19 I joined a Marxist group, and thought I was principled and brave in continuing to fight for communism long after the world declared it dead. The antisemitism was always there, enmeshed in my party’s most cherished beliefs, but it really roared to the surface with the 21st century. A new age of terrorism began, and while my comrades and I rotely denounced the deaths of innocents, we declared it a revolutionary duty to side with the men sowing carnage around the globe. They were the oppressed victims of colonialism, and U.S. imperialism the greatest enemy. The dogma was unchallengeable, surrounded by a sort of electrified fence of the mind. Seeing the obvious—that some things are, manifestly, worse than “U.S. imperialism,” whatever that is—would mean existential annihilation, exile from the community and beliefs that seemed to give life meaning. So I suppressed the occasional qualm. I raged against the West and marched against Israel, never imagining that I was supporting forces that could only be called evil.
British Jews changed me. It was their stubborn refusal to shut up about antisemitism that reshaped the arc of my life. This was in 2019. I was living in London, and although I’d recently quit my Marxist party, I was still a leftist and in thrall to Jeremy Corbyn. Of course I insisted at first that Corbyn’s critics were smearing the left—that being Zionists, i.e., reactionary and evil, they opposed us righteous defenders of the Palestinians. But the dogged charge from British Jews—“This is antisemitism”—unsettled me. I decided to fact-check my anti-Zionist beliefs, and came away shattered. I began to realize that the howls against Israel—"baby-killers,” “genocidaires”—are pure slander, emanations of the world’s oldest hatred. I became a Zionist, because if every nation has the right to self-determination (as my own comrades had taught me), that obviously includes the Jews.
And I began studying and fighting Jew-hatred, until it dawned on me that I knew vanishingly little about Jews. This was true despite supposedly being one. After my Dutch Jewish grandparents and mother fled their homeland, leaving family members who perished in Auschwitz, they blended seamlessly into America. Presumably my grandparents determined that being Jewish was more trouble than it was worth. I grew up with no awareness of being Jewish or belief in any religion. I had both every privilege and a God-shaped hole, and I would fill the latter with Marxism. Having seen where this leads, I’ve begun exploring my latent Jewish identity as not only a matter of peoplehood, but a set of religious principles.
I’ve just returned from my second visit to Israel. I had no epiphany at the Kotel, and the hyper-religiosity of Tzfat drove me crazy, but I found endless inspiration in the irrepressible, life-loving Israeli people, and an elusive sense of mystery. The word “Israel” means “one who struggles with God,” and in Jerusalem I felt more than ever that I am a Jew.
I owe it all to my brethren who refused to be silent, and who, despite everything, welcomed me into the enriching, fascinating, fractious, sometimes-infuriating Jewish tribe. Thank you all. Am Yisrael chai.
#MyXAnniversary
Two grubby little racists who went 'fishing for Jews' in north London as they filmed antisemitic TikTok videos were spared jail yesterday. It's almost like the courts in this country don't see Jewish people as genuine victims.
https://t.co/k2mdemMyu9
L: Fatah Sharif Abu Al-Amin, terrorist commander of Hamas in Lebanon — and UNRWA school principal and union chief overseeing 2,000 UNRWA teachers in Lebanon.
R: Philppe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General from 2020-2026, who put Hamas terror chiefs in charge of schools.
Be honest, who knew that Hamas summer camps in the Gaza Strip for 13-17 year olds was about using real AK47s with real bullets and real military training, to attack Israelis?
Who knew, besides UNRWA?
Todavía no logro comprender cómo 6.000 terroristas palestinos invadieron Israel y, con orgullo, retransmitieron en directo la masacre de familias judías el 7 de octubre, y aun así muchos en el mundo siguen creyendo que son las víctimas.
¿Acaso el mundo ha perdido la cabeza?
The moment Eli Sharabi, who was held hostage in Gaza, told the UN the truth.
"NO ONE in Gaza helped me. I was treated worse than animal. The civilians saw us suffering and they cheered our kidnappers. They were definitely involved."
Share this. The mainstream media won't.
The UN Human Rights Council issued a report claiming that the IDF deliberately targeted Gazan children.
Within hours, it was everywhere. Headlines. Social media. Even Ms. Rachel shared it, calling the report “indisputable evidence.”
But the report doesn’t actually contain any evidence.
Let’s break it down.🧵(1/6)
@skynews by quoting and giving a person like tucker carlson a soap box you have lost credibility. You may as well quote david duke as an expert on racism
This is the UN.
Look at the face of the UN special rapporteur who is meant to stand up for women but has refused, again and again, to speak up for Israeli women.
Look at her face when a former hostage challenges her.
Ron Atkinson called a footballer a “lazy thick n****r” on a hot mic and never worked again.
Gary Lineker shared an instagram video referring to Jews as rats, and here we are: warmly welcomed back to our screens with jokes.
Double standards in plain sight